Voltage-monitoring circuits are firmly established in microcomputer systems. These circuits perform system initialization, which includes circuit reset, and they monitor the supply voltage during oper
The inter-integrated circuit (I2C) is a multi-master, multi-slave, single-ended bus that is typically used for attaching lower speed peripheral ICs to processors and microcontrollers. The type of sla
With ever increasing speeds of DSP devices such as the 'C5x, and the increasing demand for reduced form factors, as in HDD applications, there is a need for integrating the program memory into the DSP
The switch-mode power supply primary current is often sensed using a power resistor. Using an op amp to amplify the current-sense signal can reduce cost and improve noise performance and efficiency. T
This application report reviews several different types of bridge sensors, including characteristics of each type, and discusses the key parameters of delta-sigma (ΔΣ) analog-to-digital co
This application report explains the implementation of an Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS), using the ultra-low-power MSP430F5xx microcontroller, a magnetometer, a gyroscope, and an accele
In any digitizing system, antialiasing and anti-imaging filters are used to prevent the signal frequencies from "folding back" around the sample frequency and causing false (or alias) signals from app
This document describes the features of the on-chip bootloader provided with the TMS320VC5510 Digital Signal Processor (DSP). Included are descriptions of each of the available boot modes and any inte
Battery charger ICs base their full charge termination on either peak voltage detect (PVD/-dV) for nickel chemistries (bq2000, bq2002, and bq2004) or current taper for Li-ion batteries (bq24010, bq240
Predictive Gate Drive™ is a novel digital control-driven technique that optimizes MOSFET turn-on and turn-off delays in synchronous rectifiers. It uses a closed loop feedback system to detect bo
This application report describes various boot mechanisms supported by the AM18xx bootloader read-only memory (ROM) image. Topics covered include the Application Image Script (AIS) boot process, an AI